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Cortijo Y Su Combo Con Ismael Rivera — “Quitate De La Via Perico”

$55.00

Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera changed Puerto Rican music. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cortijo y Su Combo brought bomba and plena — Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms that had long been kept to the margins — to the center of the island’s popular culture. They packed ballrooms, recorded for Rumba Records, and broke the color line in an industry that had largely ignored Black Puerto Rican artists. Ismael Rivera, “El Sonero Mayor,” was the voice that made it all land — a singer of staggering instinct and emotional range who could ride a rhythm the way no one else could.

Genre: Latin / Guaracha / Guaguancó / Bomba / Plena

Year: 1961

Label: Rumba — RLP-55548 / RLP-1148

Country: US

Condition: Media: VG+ / Sleeve: VG

Notes: Repress (1961). Original sleeve — ringwear on back cover.

Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera changed Puerto Rican music. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cortijo y Su Combo brought bomba and plena — Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms that had long been kept to the margins — to the center of the island’s popular culture. They packed ballrooms, recorded for Rumba Records, and broke the color line in an industry that had largely ignored Black Puerto Rican artists. Ismael Rivera, “El Sonero Mayor,” was the voice that made it all land — a singer of staggering instinct and emotional range who could ride a rhythm the way no one else could.